Meet the spring PlySpace residents who will bring street art, workshops and more to Muncie

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PlySpace resident artist Anthony Bower hosts a pool project at Catalina Swim Club. Participants were offered opportunities to make their own cyanotype prints, participate in underwater listening stations and be interviewed by the artist about their summer pool experiences. Provided by Muncie Arts and Culture Council

PlySpace resident artist Anthony Bower hosts a pool project at Catalina Swim Club. Participants were offered opportunities to make their own cyanotype prints, participate in underwater listening stations and be interviewed by the artist about their summer pool experiences. Provided by Muncie Arts and Culture Council

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MUNCIE, Ind. — PlySpace, an artist-in-residence program with the Muncie Arts and Culture Council, has announced its four spring 2019 residents.

Kevin Titzer, Siena Hancock, Matt Litwin, and Victoria Eidelsztein will live in Muncie through April and bring with them community-focused projects.

Kevin Titzer's site-specific installation work is often crafted from materials gathered at the location of construction and formed into improvised house structures. He has been professionally exhibiting his work in art galleries for 20 years, and his work has been shown in Canada, Mexico, Japan, the United Kingdom and across the United States. While at PlySpace, Titzer will collaborate with foundation-level students at Ball State University’s School of Art through workshops on creating sculpture using found and scavenged objects. He will also complete a site-specific installation in the PlySpace Gallery with exhibition dates in April.

The house that holds PlySpace and the Muncie Arts and Culture Council office in the Emily Kimbrough Historic District in downtown Muncie.(Photo: Provided by Muncie Arts and Culture Council)

Siena Hancock is an interdisciplinary artist from Boston and a 2016 graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art. She has recently completed an installation at the Dirt Palace in Providence, R.I., and a residency at Main St. Arts in New York. Siena will create a multifaceted community project focused on Utopian feminism while at PlySpace, according to a release. She will conduct interviews and ethnographies, develop artist books and engage in conversations with women around Muncie to gather research about feminism in the Midwest. Her project will culminate in a collaborative public program to be announced later this spring.

Matt Litwin and Victoria Eidelsztein, artists from Buenos Aires, Argentina, will bring their FaceMePorFavor (Face Me Please) street art campaign to Muncie as part of a North American expansion of the project. The artists began FaceMePorFavor with the simple mission of painting portraits as portals to the human spirit. Their goal is to create a visual voice for people to share their hopes and dreams, fears and despair. While at PlySpace they will collaborate with various Muncie neighborhoods to collect portraits and questionnaires from Muncie citizens through an online portal (www.plyspace.org/facemeporfavor), which will then be used to create wheat-paste murals throughout the city. Muncie citizens are encouraged to participate by submitting their portrait photos for inclusion in the project. The deadline for online submissions is March 10.

Upcoming events will provide opportunity to interact with residents and learn more about projects:

Kevin Titzer Artist Lecture: 6 p.m. Feb. 27 in Room 225 of the Ball State Art and Journalism building. Free and open to the public.

FaceMePorFavor: Murals for Muncie Neighborhoods: March 2 during the Neighborhood I.D.E.A. Conference at the Ball State University Student Center, with presentation from Matt Litwin and Victoria Eidelsztein. Registration is required. Do so through www.muncieneighborhoods.org.

PlySpace Open Studios for March First Thursday: 5-8 p.m. March 7 at Madjax Makers Hub Second Floor Studios. Free and open to the public.

Kevin Titzer: PlySpace Gallery Opening for April First Thursday: 5:30-8:30 p.m. April 4 at PlySpace Gallery, 608 E. Main St. in Muncie. Free and open to the public.